COMEM+ Architecture & Deployment course

In this course you will learn:

How to deploy applications on a Linux server on an IaaS platform (Amazon Web Services).
How to deploy applications on a PaaS platform (Heroku).
Automated testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery (Travis CI).

In pursuit of this goal, you will learn:

How to use the command line and version control.
The basics of Unix system administration and cloud computing architectures.
Good security practices related to system administration and web applications.

This course is a COMEM+ web development course taught at HEIG-VD.

Plan
What you will need
Exercises
Useful links

Plan

Introduction
- Command line
- Secure Shell (SSH)
Version control
Security
- Open Web Application Security Project
- OWASP Top 10 - The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks
Basic deployment
Advanced deployment
Automated deployment
- Shell scripting
- Git hooks
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
- Heroku
Software development (extra)
- Continuous software development
- Automated testing

What you will need

A Unix CLI (Git Bash is included with Git on Windows)
Git
A free GitHub account
Google Chrome (recommended, any browser with developer tools will do)
A free Heroku account
The Heroku CLI

Exercises

Version control
Unix
- Permissions
- Pipeline
Basic deployment
Advanced deployment
- Deploy a static site with nginx (diagram)
- Deploy a PHP application with nginx and the FastCGI process manager (diagram)
- Set up an automated deployment with Git hooks (diagram)
- Deploy a web application with a database (graded, not yet available)
- Deploy a Node.js application with a MongoDB database (extra)
- Deploy a Node.js application with a Redis database (extra)
- Provision a Let's Encrypt TLS certificate with Certbot
- Configure nginx as a load balancer (extra)
- Bonus exercise (not yet available)
- End result diagram
Platform-as-a-Service deployment
- Deploy a PHP web page to Heroku
- Deploy PHP and Node.js applications to Heroku

Useful links